As Rajiv Kumar retires, his tenure as Chief Election Commissioner is remembered for significant electoral reforms, challenges ...

Javed Akhtar talks with Subhash K Jha about his father Jaan Nisar Akhtar, noted poet and lyricist for Hindi films on his ...

ONE of Urdu criticism’s unwritten but time-honoured understandings is to keep on writing on life and works of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib (Dec 27, 1797 - Feb 15, 1869), one of the greatest and most ...

The first book in Arabic about the life and poetry of the great Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib, titled Ghalib: A’zam Shu’ara’il-Hind ...

The singer, who rose to fame in the 90s along with his brother as a part of a new wave of Sindhi artists, passed away on Friday.

Ghalib, who began composing poetry at the age of 10, wrote more in Persian than Urdu and regarded his Persian poetry and ...

Faiz Ahmad Faiz is a poet of this family, the family of which Persian poet Nazeeri Nishapuri said, “The one who is not killed ...

Our Chandigarh had its share of poets and there had been lyrical poets of the fame of Shiv Kumar Batalvi writing in Punjabi and Prem Warbortoni penning ghazals in Urdu with aplomb, calling out to his ...

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s flirtations with religiosity continued to afflict Bangladesh’s body politic much after his death.

More than 200 literary luminaries from the country and across the Pakistani diaspora will take part in the 16th edition of ...

The sky is the limit for Taylor-Joy, and while she’s willing to dive into any type of production, the quartet of films she named as her all-time favourites to Letterboxd ... and there’s this beautiful ...

In a multicultural hub like Sydney, maintaining a connection to one’s ancestral roots is a powerful way to preserve identity and heritage. Sydney Urdu School, exemplifies this ethos by promoting the ...